The Sierra Leone Telegraph

Mahmud Tim Kargbo: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2026: A country’s economic progress is often determined by the strength of the infrastructure that supports its ambitions. Behind every growing economy are systems that ensure businesses can operate, industries can expand and citizens can access essential services without unnecessary disruption. In [Read More]

Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) Africa and African Energy Chamber (AEC) sign strategic agreement

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2026: The African Energy Chamber (AEC) (https://EnergyChamber.org) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE Africa), marking a significant step toward strengthening technical collaboration, knowledge transfer and innovation across Africa’s energy industry. The agreement formalizes a strategic partnership between [Read More]

Global leaders announce $6.4 Billion for ocean action at first African Our Ocean Conference

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2026: Over 100 governments, businesses and civil society organizations announced 320 new commitments valued at $6.4 billion to advance ocean conservation, sustainable fisheries, climate resilience and the blue economy at the 2026 Our Ocean Conference, which concluded today in Mombasa, Kenya. The conference marked a [Read More]

Sierra Leone blocks Aminata fuel deal saving $33 Million in taxes

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 18 June 2026: A controversial proposed agreement that would have handed sweeping tax concessions to the biggest importer of oil to Sierra Leone, Aminata & Sons Limited, has been derailed by lawmakers following an outcry over its fiscal impact. The decision blocks a move that MPs warned [Read More]

Chairman of Sierra Leone’s main opposition All People’s Congress Party – Minkailu Mansaray has died

June 15, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 15 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s main opposition APC party’s National Chairman – Alhaji Minkailu Mansaray, has passed away in Pôle Santé de Dakar Clinique Mixte in Dakar, Senegal after a long illness. Alhaji Foday Yansanneh has been serving as Acting Chairman, during Minkailu’s long stay in London [Read More]

Wife of Sierra Leone’s President Bio in the dock: Hands off our girls – hands off our London council housing

June 11, 2026 1

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 11 June 2026: This has been a troubled week for Mrs Fatima Bio, the wife of Sierra Leone’s President Julius Maada Bio, desperately defending her position on female circumcision, following a bruising interview with the BBC the previous week, answering questions about her relationship with Europe’s most [Read More]

The architecture of an alibi – Op ed

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Sierra Leone’s former Chief Minister and Foreign Minister – Professor David Francis, has written a book. It is titled Governing a Poor Country. Do not be fooled by the academic polish. This is not a study. It is a defence. Francis [Read More]

President Bio’s complicity in global cocaine trafficking – Malik Azmani MEP calls for economic sanctions against Sierra Leone

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Beyond the sad fact that President Julius Maada Bio and his SLPP government have brought shame and suffering to the poor people of Sierra Leone who are ranked one of the poorest in the world, in a country that has no business being poor [Read More]

Nigeria’s economic future depends on capital inflows, innovation, and productive enterprise

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 10 June 2026: Nigeria’s vice president Senator Kashim Shettima has said Nigeria’s ambition of building a one-trillion-dollar economy is driven by enterprise, investment, and coordinated reforms across all levels of government. He particularly identified Lagos State as the clearest demonstration of how subnational leadership can accelerate national [Read More]

Dr Donkor named recipient of prestigious distinguished African Development Finance Leadership Award

Sierra Leone Telegraph:10 June 2026: The ECOWAS Bank for Investment and Development (EBID) has announced that its President and Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dr George Agyekum Donkor, has been named as the recipient of the Distinguished African Development Finance Leadership Award – Regional Integration & Economic Transformation at [Read More]

Sierra Leone’s 2008 wisdom and the cocaine challenge

June 9, 2026 0

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 09 June 2026: In 2008, following the unauthorised landing of a plane carrying cocaine at Sierra Leone’s Lungi international airport, the country’s response was a radical strike against impunity: a Certificate of Emergency to enact the National Drugs Control Act. The Act redeemed the [Read More]

Antigua and Barbuda constituency boundaries must be urgently reviewed, says Commonwealth Observer Group final report

June 7, 2026 0

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 June 2026: The Commonwealth Observer Group to the 30 April 2026 general elections in Antigua and Barbuda has released its final report, calling for urgent reform of constituency boundaries while commending the overall peaceful and transparent conduct of the polls. The Group reiterated concerns first raised [Read More]

The day the Sentinel slept: President suspended Auditor General Taylor-Pearce before a tribunal was engaged

June 7, 2026 1

Mohammed Kroma Esq: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 07 June 2026: The removal of Auditor-General Lara Taylor-Pearce on 20 December 2024 was not the conclusion of a lawful accountability process. It was the last act of a three-year constitutional bypass. While the Executive initiated the assault and Parliament sanitized it, the failure [Read More]

Mayor Aki-Sawyerr engages Kush addicts

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: As drugs addiction among young people in Sierra Leone continues to destroy lives and impact the economy and the wider society, Mayor of Freetown Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr met some of these youth to talk about their lives. “A sad reality is that hundreds of kush [Read More]

The hard truth: Sierra Leone is crying, but who Is listening?

Dr. Doma: Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: Sometimes the truth is bitter but if we refuse to face it, we can never solve it. A recent survey on the economic situation in Sierra Leone paints a very worrying picture. The findings show what ordinary Sierra Leoneans already know from [Read More]

World Bank Group launches Ten-Year Strategy to drive jobs and prosperity in Uganda

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: The World Bank Group (WBG) Board of Executive Directors yesterday endorsed a new Country Partnership Framework (CPF) for Uganda, a 10-year strategy (2026-2035) designed to accelerate a private sector-led economic transformation and expand opportunities for the country’s rapidly growing population. The CPF, developed in [Read More]

Parliament of Sierra Leone mourns the sudden death of Kono district MP – Lucinda Finda Kelly

Sierra Leone Telegraph: 05 June 2026: Finda Lucinda Kellie, opposition APC member of parliament representing the people of Kono District, is reported to have passed away yesterday after a short illness. “Finda’s untimely death has left family members and friends devastated. She was known for her dedication, strength, and unwavering [Read More]

Sierra Leone blocks Aminata fuel deal saving $33 Million in taxes